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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 161, 10 July 1871, Page 2

They know how'to punish men at home / for damaging the telegraph wires. At the Dublin Commission .Court a man named John Power was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for cutting down and removing a portion of the telegraph wire on the railway near Milltowo. ".. The whaling season promises to be most favorable^ Five whales have already been taken. Should similar luck attend the whalers for the remainder of the season, it will prove one of the most remunerative they have had for some years. — Marl~ boTougk Press. Eatanswill. — Arrowtown bids fair to become the Eatanswill of Otago. The two papers recently started there— the Advocate and they Observer— devote a large portion of" their space to abusing each other, and the number of puns made by each on the name of the other is something appalling. We, Post, have seen some splendid specimens from the Baker's Hill and Morning Star claims, far richer than anything that, has yet been shown us from that locality. Those working the former claim have repeatedly said that the further they drive the richer is the quartz they see. and if what' we have seen may be accepted as a fair sample of the stuff last found, the future yield of the claim will undoubtedly be satisfactory. The industries of the Province of Marlborough appear to be steadily pro- . gressing, notwithstanding the apparent duln'ess and stagnation of business.' Most of the flax works are in full work and we still hear of others about to be started. The late satisfactory returns from Eng- . land have given an impetus to this industry ; and we are glad 'to notice that some of the material from this province bas obtained first-class prices at the London sales, and has received favorable , m en tion . — Press. A | The Blenheim correspondent of the Kaikoura Herald says : — Trade continues extremely dull, a large proportion of the circulating medium of the district having been swallowed up in the vortex of quartz crushing speculations. Confound the quartz say I, for every pint of prosperity, < I believe there is a gallon of loss, and if sonde of the speculators don't take in a reef or two; it strikes me the reefs will take them in. " Bah ! " say they, " yours, is ouly a speculative opinion," My creed — " Man's wealth is in the soil, not under it. Advance my BrothersGod speed the plough." Our American Cousins. — Strange as it may sound, our connection with the United States, lacked, till, within the last month, that truly American institution of boiler bursting. Until the occurrence of some such catastrophe, which we would have hoped inaugurated without loss of life, we must have felt our connection as unsatisfactory. It now having taken place on board one of the inter-social steamers, we may rest assured that our acquaintance will be cemented in such a "way as noother event would have sufficed to render complete. — Wanganui Chronicle, For remainder of news see fourth page.